Whether individuals grow up in a working-class environment or in an academic household, they take on behaviors that are typical for their class -- so goes the hypothesis. A social-psychologist has now ...

Diversity is a familiar topic in many college psychology classes. Race, gender, sexual orientation, LGBTQ issues, ethnicity, and disability fall under the heading of diversity. Yet one topic, social ...

It's fair to say that class plays a significant role in whether people get into the C-suite or not. Indeed, research shows that workers from working-class backgrounds are over 30% less likely to be ...

GROWING up in a former mining community, and through her own personal and professional experiences of schooling in the former coalfields, Dr Kat Simpson’s new book entitled Social Haunting, Education ...

One consequence of the revival of sociology in Soviet Russia has been to focus attention on the influence of social class on the educational aspirations and educational attainment levels of Soviet ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jack Kelly covers career growth, job market and workplace trends. In America, we’d like to believe that there is no such thing as ...

Comparative Education is an international journal of educational studies that contains up-to-date information with analyses of significant problems and trends world-wide. The journal focuses ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Jean Anyon, professor at the Urban Education Graduate Center at City University of New York, will present the 2002 Charlotte C. Acer Memorial Colloquium on Urban Education at the ...

Vincent van Gogh, "Peasant Woman Digging," (Also called "A Woman with a Spade, Seen from Behind") 1885. Art Gallery of Ontario Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain “The evil of poverty is not so ...

Marriage is fast becoming a status symbol. In 2018, fewer people in the U.S. are getting married, but those who do are more likely to be economically privileged. A 2017 research brief found that 56% ...